brooding - Story 17140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to class in days. John stared out the window, the autumn leaves swirling in the wind, mirroring the chaos within. The accusations had broken him. The world was cold and unforgiving.

He let the light play on his face, but he did not feel any better. He should have been in class. He should have been doing something. But he couldn't. He closed his eyes.

He got up and wandered around the room. He felt empty. He hated it. He felt like the man he was, was being erased. He fell down to his bed.

Emotion: brooding

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.46 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion brooding. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 brooding stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the brooding emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the brooding vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.749
`😞`	0.329
`그의`	0.299
`un`	0.273
`但他`	0.270

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.917
`la`	-0.603
`a`	-0.369
`l`	-0.335
`her`	-0.330